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Error loading operating system

After a clean install of Fedora Core 2 on a 10 GB hard drive, I get the following message: Error Loading Operating System. I have done installs Red Hat installs since 7.2 and never had the problem before. Anybody has any suggestions? I select GRUB as the bootloader.

Unfortunatelly, I don't get any initialization of the Kernel, the error message is the first thing I get after the computer has started to reboot.
Also I check the MD5 on the ISOs and they are all good. I did reinstall 3 times already yesterday and kept on getting the same message.

Grub didn't get installed properly. You'll need to clean up the mbr and then reinstall Grub.
The quick and dirty way to clean up the mbr would be to grab a Win9x boot floppy and, after booting from it, issue fdisk /mbr. This woll format the master boot record. Then grab Fedora Core 2 install cd1 and boot from that. From the installer menu, select Repair existing installation(or whatever similar).